On Tuesday, May 15, 2012 17:35:58 Gor Gyolchanyan wrote: > Even if it's wrong to move writef to druntime, the toUTFz is still a very > small word to write.
Using toStringz or toUTFz instead of having string literals be zero-terminated would force allocating extra strings (string literals are in an RO portion of memory - at least on Linux - so you can't append to them without reallocating). Making it so that string literals weren't null terminated would break a _lot_ of code for little-to-no benefit and a definite cost. I really don't see the problem with "" being different from cast(string)[] - particularly when the fact that "" is non-null is _useful_. - Jonathan M Davis
